This morning H. decided that toast and tempeh bacon was a lousy breakfast so he demanded I get him a bagel. After I told him that breakfast was what was on the plate, he proceeded to crumble everything and left it. After an hour, he ate it, but still pissed me off.

oh my gosh, erin. shae pulled something like this a few weeks ago. out of the blue said that he hated spaghetti and that it was disgusting (never mind that it's always been one of his favorite meals!). he's never even spoke to us like that before, ever. beyond ridiculous. he finally ate half of it and then i put the rest in the fridge and he ate it the next night!

oh my gosh, erin. shae pulled something like this a few weeks ago. out of the blue said that he hated spaghetti and that it was disgusting (never mind that it's always been one of his favorite meals!). he's never even spoke to us like that before, ever. beyond ridiculous. he finally ate half of it and then i put the rest in the fridge and he ate it the next night!

that shiitake is annoying.

glad to know i'm not the only one dealing with this. and yes! this shiitake is SO annoying!

We are currently experiencing one hell of a tantrum. It all started with the insistence that Mrs. Face "owed" him candy because she "always" gives him candy after school. This injustice WILL NOT STAND. We were treated to the screaming denial that he was having a tantrum and then he hauled out his best sarcasm. And now, because we're mean and/or bad parents, we are being denied hugs for the rest of the day.

oh my gosh, erin. shae pulled something like this a few weeks ago. out of the blue said that he hated spaghetti and that it was disgusting (never mind that it's always been one of his favorite meals!). he's never even spoke to us like that before, ever. beyond ridiculous. he finally ate half of it and then i put the rest in the fridge and he ate it the next night!

that shiitake is annoying.

glad to know i'm not the only one dealing with this. and yes! this shiitake is SO annoying!

You guys are not the only ones! My six year old has been the complete opposite of his previous self this year. He is revisiting the tantrums of the Terrible Two's! I am not a smacker and yeller, but by God feel like I am becoming one! Hang in there and don't fuel the fire by reacting. Easy to say, but not so easy to do...

_________________Go gentle unto the night, children. For the flouncin' hat is sure to unflatter even the finest face ~ PandacookieGet with the times, nameless fourth banana ~Tofulish

Ah, the sarcasm. Don't you just love it? Especially at such a young age.

(To Mrs. Face) Could you be nicer? Could you? It's a question. I don't know. Could you?

And so innocent! sigh.

I'll never forget Shae's kindergarten teacher telling us that upon seeing her Magic School Bus books on the Non Fiction bookshelf, he said "Of course they are! I always shrink my school bus and fly into peoples noses to explore their body. That's totally real."

I just discovered that she has been super cranky for days because she is exhausted. Why is she exhausted when she goes to bed at 7:30pm and gets up at 6:30am? Because she's actually in her room at night, awake, periodically checking to see if I'm asleep in bed yet so she can sneak into bed with me. Apparently she stays up until this happens! I just discovered this because I heard her crying and I'd JUST checked on her and she'd looked asleep and I'd checked on her because I thought I heard the noise I'd been hearing at night. I stuck her in my bed. Oy.

FootFace wrote:

We are currently experiencing one hell of a tantrum. It all started with the insistence that Mrs. Face "owed" him candy because she "always" gives him candy after school. This injustice WILL NOT STAND. We were treated to the screaming denial that he was having a tantrum and then he hauled out his best sarcasm. And now, because we're mean and/or bad parents, we are being denied hugs for the rest of the day.

Oh yeah. Daddy really loves her cause daddy always buys her toys. (Don't even get me started on 8 million aspects of that)

Mrs. Face is pretty nice - I'm not actually sure she COULD be nicer. I can't imagine G would appreciate that answer though. :D

_________________"T-shirts are not allowed in heaven, Karyn. They don't do casual Fridays." - Amandabear

I just discovered that she has been super cranky for days because she is exhausted. Why is she exhausted when she goes to bed at 7:30pm and gets up at 6:30am? Because she's actually in her room at night, awake, periodically checking to see if I'm asleep in bed yet so she can sneak into bed with me. Apparently she stays up until this happens! I just discovered this because I heard her crying and I'd JUST checked on her and she'd looked asleep and I'd checked on her because I thought I heard the noise I'd been hearing at night. I stuck her in my bed. Oy.

that's actually pretty adorable, but in a sad kind of way. i am imagining livi sneaking around & losing sleep just because she needs some extra mama cuddles.

I just discovered that she has been super cranky for days because she is exhausted. Why is she exhausted when she goes to bed at 7:30pm and gets up at 6:30am? Because she's actually in her room at night, awake, periodically checking to see if I'm asleep in bed yet so she can sneak into bed with me. Apparently she stays up until this happens! I just discovered this because I heard her crying and I'd JUST checked on her and she'd looked asleep and I'd checked on her because I thought I heard the noise I'd been hearing at night. I stuck her in my bed. Oy.

that's actually pretty adorable, but in a sad kind of way. i am imagining livi sneaking around & losing sleep just because she needs some extra mama cuddles.

I know! That's why I caved so easy. Sigh.

_________________"T-shirts are not allowed in heaven, Karyn. They don't do casual Fridays." - Amandabear

I just discovered that she has been super cranky for days because she is exhausted. Why is she exhausted when she goes to bed at 7:30pm and gets up at 6:30am? Because she's actually in her room at night, awake, periodically checking to see if I'm asleep in bed yet so she can sneak into bed with me. Apparently she stays up until this happens! I just discovered this because I heard her crying and I'd JUST checked on her and she'd looked asleep and I'd checked on her because I thought I heard the noise I'd been hearing at night. I stuck her in my bed. Oy.

that's actually pretty adorable, but in a sad kind of way. i am imagining livi sneaking around & losing sleep just because she needs some extra mama cuddles.

As soon as we got home from school today Reno threw a mega tantrum. I said nothing/did nothing to cause it. She walked in the door and BAM tantrum. After a few minutes of me asking what is wrong? Is she hurt? It turned into me screaming that i'm going to throw away all the Halloween treats she just got at school. She still wouldn't tell me what was wrong.

This morning H. decided that toast and tempeh bacon was a lousy breakfast so he demanded I get him a bagel. After I told him that breakfast was what was on the plate, he proceeded to crumble everything and left it. After an hour, he ate it, but still pissed me off.

don't you just love it when they do that? i want to tear my hair out when blasto goes on that streak. he'll look right at me and laugh while he does it too!

i had to take fini to the doctor's last night because she's had a cough for 2 wks now. sinus infection. anyway, while waiting in the doctor's room, blasto just tears everything up: magazines, books, paper on the table, etc. he constantly escapes from exam room and i'm chasing him around the practice with fini in tow. i've been really good at not losing my shiitake with him--a good 2+mos worth. then i snap. i didn't beat him, but i hollered and grabbed more than i cared to. it was just too much for me.

the goocher? as he was in total demon mode, the nurses placate him with a toy! reward him for acting like a total boogerbutt! don't they know better? then i had to take it away from him and have him hate me more in that moment.

Good! Let's run away. Not for too long. I've been eying yoga retreats.

It's so weird because for so long Livi didn't care about things like holidays and suddenly she really does - like she wanted a really nice cake and a nice pumpkin and stuff like that - and it caught me so off guard because it was so last minute that I couldn't really follow through well - ugh.

_________________"T-shirts are not allowed in heaven, Karyn. They don't do casual Fridays." - Amandabear